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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






2. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






3. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






4. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






5. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






6. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






7. Graphic display of schedule related information.






8. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






9. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






10. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






11. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






12. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






13. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






14. Float (total float - free float)






15. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






16. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






17. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






18. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






19. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






20. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






21. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






22. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






23. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






24. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






25. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






26. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






27. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






28. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






29. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






30. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






31. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






32. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






33. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






34. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






35. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






36. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






37. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






38. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






39. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






40. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






41. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






42. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






43. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






44. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






45. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






46. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






47. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






48. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






49. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






50. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.